Daoist Master of Qing Xuan

Shen Lian opened his mouth and spit, an even stronger sword aura came out right from his mouth.

The main hall was shaking and there came a sound as loud as the firecrackers. The middle-aged Daoist’s body seemed to be filled with air and it was expanding rapidly. In the end, it exploded in the mid-air and disappeared.

The Daoist robe shattered into uncountable pieces of cloths that fell to the ground. Every piece of cloth turned into a person.

These people consisted of both males and females. In an instant, various types of occult techniques came attacking him. All of them were Qing Xuan’s Dao technique which Shen Lian was already very familiar with. Also, looking at the way they performed their Dao technique, they actually reached a profound level of skills.

He seemed like a man who was fighting alone in some era, like the elite disciples in Qing Xuan.

Shen Lian was roaming around the courtyard, crossing through these occult techniques and none of them even touched his body.

Though he was just a spirit, he could still perform various Dao techniques to counter every single Dao technique that attacked him. He could catch their weaknesses and killed them with one attack.

He broke every spell with no mercy. Everyone was easily killed by him.

These people were no different from the hawkers, pedestrians, wealthy merchants and scholars in the city. All of them had lost themselves. They were only left with their physical bodies which were just shells.

When all the spells and the figures were eliminated by Shen Lian, the main hall became extremely quiet.

It was so quiet that as if there would not be any sound anymore.

You could still take the silence and emptiness for a short while but the longer the time had passed, the eternal loneliness would slowly engulf a perfect heart of Dao bit by bit.

Shen Lian heard the sound of water dripping.

“Di da, di da.”

He saw that there was blood dripping down from the cornice outside of the pavilion and fell on the stone steps. The blood looked so bright and fresh.

He could smell the scent of blood, then he saw there was a heavy downpour of blood rain outside of the pavilion. The blood water was rumbling outside the pavilion and it was ponding up. It was not as dense but it was flowing in swish.

He did not realize when and how he was lying on a bed.

Technically it was not a bed but a jade. Inside the jade was a slightly warm current which flowed into his body. This heat was streaming through his entire body.

A cold and soft hand touched his forehead. When Shen Lian opened his eyes, he saw a slim and graceful young lady who had bright eyes filled with everlasting tenderness.

There was a girl who looked pretty and had a delicate appearance.

This description was probably just right for the young lady.

Although his eyesight was slightly blurred, his heart was like a clean mirror. This young lady looked just like Gu Caiwei.

When she saw Shen Lian open his eyes, she felt a little relieved and said, “Shen Lian, quick, get up, today is the day you will be apprenticed. From today onwards you will be my Junior Apprentice-Brother.”

Shen Lian looked into the mirror and noticed that the person inside the mirror was only about ten years old and he looked thin and still short. However, he was still good-looking and the young lady was standing behind managing his hair.

Then, she got him a slightly oversized Daoist robe.

He was led by the young lady who looked just like Gu Caiwei to come to the Hall of the Grandmasters. He saw a woman who looked almost identical to Biyun sitting in the hall. The portrait of Biyun at the side was empty, it seemed like this Biyun came out from the portrait.

After running through the procedures for apprentice tea ceremony, he should bow down with his hands folded to show gratitude towards the master.

But Shen Lian remained standing and did not bow down.

“Junior Apprentice-Brother, why haven’t you bow down to your master?”

“Junior Apprentice-Brother, why haven’t you bow down to your master?”

“Junior Apprentice-Brother, why haven’t you bow down to your master?”

Even this young lady’s voice was ninety percent similar to Gu Caiwei’s. It seemed like this was really who Gu Caiwei was when she was still young.

Shen Lian clasped his hands behind his back and stood there staring at this Zhenren Biyun right in front of him. This was the dead master he had not met before.

The sound of water dripping outside started again. It was still blood beads, it was still blood water, that was about to come flooding into the pavilion.

The fantasy state right in front of Shen Lian’s eyes changed again. Gu Caiwei disappeared, the apprentice tea ceremony disappeared, Biyun who was sitting in the hall also disappeared. Just like before, it seemed like he did not leave this pavilion before.

But one thing he realized was that the Zhenren Biyun’s portrait was already gone and he did not know when it happened.

In the blood rain, in the blood water ponding outside of the pavilion, there was a woman who walked under the blood rain while holding an oil-paper umbrella that came in.

Two of them were looking at each other at the same moment and they could not stop staring at each other.

Shen Lian locked his gaze on this woman whose appearance was exactly the same as Zhenren Biyun and he asked, “Who are you?”

The woman responded, “I am your master, Biyun.”

“You’re not,” Shen Lian answered softly.

“I am her, but I am already dead. You have to take revenge for me, kill Yanxu.”

“You are Sky Demon,” Shen Lian ignore what she said.

“You are right, I am the Sky Demon but I am also Biyun. Are you going to deceive and slaughter your mentor? Although I taught you nothing before, nominally I am still your master,” the woman said.

Shen Lian said, “You only have her memories. All the dead people’s regrets in this fortification were already engulfed by you. Even my former Qing Xuan elder teachers’ regrets were also engulfed by you.”

“You are very smart, and you are also very knowledgeable. I knew I won’t be able to hide from you. But since you’ve come here, don’t even think that you can leave,” the woman looked at Shen Lian as though she saw her prey.

Shen Lian could clearly feel that she had a very strong desire for him. That desire was just like suddenly presenting a delicacy to someone who had not eaten for ages.

She could still manage to control herself and that was already something difficult to do.

Because of this powerful Sky Demon, Shen Lian clearly knew that was why his divine aura was still perfect.

Since she was born, she had never seen such a pure divine aura.

“You’re wrong. I will leave as I wish,” Shen Lian clasped his hands behind his back and stood up.

The woman smiled sarcastically and did not believe him, she said, “Try to walk out here, then.”

Shen Lian said, “Goodbye it is.”

His body suddenly lighted up. It was so pure and bright and that was his self-divine aura.

When this ray of light lighted up, there was a crack in the void which engulfed Shen Lian and he really left the scene just like this.

In Taiwei Pavilion, countless light spots came and gathered together.

A woman suddenly appeared and took a deep breath. That was how freedom tasted like.

As a Sky Demon, if you lost your freedom, you basically had nothing.

Luckily she still managed to find her freedom. Shen Lian was very smart but he did not understand that if he could get out, she could also get the crack to come out.

She had been missing the days she used to spend outside. She wanted to engulf more thoughts so that she could be the Master of Sky Demon.

Prompted by this feeling of pleased, she walked towards the entrance of Taiwei Pavilion and was about to walk out of it.

But suddenly she felt her heart throbbing. There was something hanging at the entrance. It was three feet long and it looked like a purplish jade colored iron just like the green stone which was bright and nicely carved.

There was still two words carved on it, “Tai Wei”.

Shen Lian was standing right outside the door, looking at her coldly, drawing the demon out of its hole.

He was holding a mallet and he slightly knocked it against Tai Wei and there was a clear and loud sound being produced in between the heaven and earth.

The lady felt extra suffocated in this loud sound and thus she held her head.